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Privacy Policy

March 2019

1. What is a cookie?

A "cookie" is a series of information, usually small in size and identified by a name, that can be transmitted to your browser through a website to which you connect. Your web browser will keep it for a certain period of time, and will send it back to the web server each time you reconnect. Cookies have multiple uses: they can be used to store your customer ID with a merchant site, the current content of your shopping cart, an ID to track your navigation for statistical or advertising purposes, etc.

2. By whom are cookies placed?

Cookies, placed on your device from our site, can be placed by Datawords Datasia (hereinafter, “Datawords”) or by third parties. Datawords ensures that the issuance and use of cookies by third parties takes place in compliance with the regulations in force.

3. What cookies do we use?

When you connect to one of the pages of our site, we may, subject to your choices, install different cookies on your device allowing us to recognize your device's browser during the validity period of the cookie in question.
Cookies used by Datawords are of 4 types:

a. Internal cookies necessary for the operation of the website

We use cookies that are strictly necessary for the operation of our website and Services. Our website cannot function properly without these cookies. If you disable all cookies it will affect your ability to use our Services.
The cookies necessary for the operation of the site we use are as follows:

Name of the cookie
Purpose
Lifespan
has_js
Used to know if javascript works for the user
1 days

b. Functionality cookies

We use functional cookies to personalise and improve your experience by making it easier and faster to navigate through our website. Functional cookies enable us to retrieve your user preferences, personalise your visits, greet you by name and to simplify any sign-in procedures. For example, our website may request that you log in to gain access to some of our content. If we did not use cookies, you would be required to enter your login details every time you visited our site or navigated to a new page because we would not be able to remember that you had already logged in.
The functionality cookies we use are as follows:

Name of the cookie
Purpose
Lifespan
cookie-agreed
Used to know weither the user has given consent for cookies
100 days

c. Analitycal cookies

Analytical cookies help us to understand how visitors gain access to or read our content and interact with our Services. We collect statistical information about our visitors, such as whether they have visited the site before and the pages they view. We use these cookies to determine the kind of content and services our visitors value most, which in turn helps us to improve our website and its content. By understanding which content you find useful or interesting, we can recommend more content that you might like, as well as continuing to produce the most valuable content to meet your needs. Analytical cookies are set by irishtimes.com and third parties, including Comscore and Google Analytics.
To this end, we generate the following cookies:

Name of the cookie
Purpose
Lifespan
_ga
Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users.
13 months
_gat
Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.
1 min
_gid
Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users.
24 h
_ym_d
Used by Yandex.Metrica to store the date of the user's first site session
2 days
_ym_isad
Used by Yandex.Metrica to determine whether a user has ad blockers
1 year
_ym_uid
Used by Yandex.Metrica for identifying site users
1 year
_ym_visorc_*
Allows Yandex.Metrica Session Replay to function correctly
30 min

d. Advertising cookies

To help fund the content, products and services we provide, third-party vendors, including Google, display advertising on our Services.
We and third-party vendors use first-party cookies and third-party cookies together to:
Help show ads that are relevant to you based on inferred interests. This is often called online behavioural advertising (OBA);
Restrict the number of times you see the same ad (frequency capping);
Create a browsing profile that is used to deliver more relevant ads;
Measure the effectiveness of the ads that are served;
Detect fraudulent traffic.Any information we disclose to advertisers and advertising networks is non-personally identifiable.
We generate the following advertising cookies:

Name of the cookie
Purpose
Lifespan
_ga
Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users.
13 months

4. How can you make your choices about cookies?

You have the possibility to oppose the use of cookies, on the cookie banner by clickingDecline or by configurating your browser.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. On this website you’ll find information about a browser plug-in that can be installed to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics. Same for Yandex.Metrica here https://yandex.com/support/metrica/general/opt-out.html